Steve Willis has been hard at work planning this year’s Swaledale weekend – and after the cancellation of the first day last year we’ll all be hoping for more clement weather like this photo for our July weekend. Steve has negotiated access to many of the tracks that are only available to ride as part of our events on the weekend – the terrain is always challenging (especially at the start) but the rewards are incredible!

Discounted entries until midnight Monday July 6th

Online entries open until midnight Thursday July 9th

Camping, campervans and caravans all welcome at the DBC – no booking in advance required – you can pay as part of your BMBO entry or at registration. £10 pp pn.

Glamping pods and bunkhouse pods available via the DBC website

Free refreshments after your ride. Toilets, bike wash and cafe

More details to follow over the next 2 weeks!

It was a blustery day in the Yorkshire Wolds which made some of the headwinds on the tops particularly hardgoing. Of course, that did give the contrasting benefit of a tailwind at times too! David Day planned an excellent and fast course for us in an area we don’t usually visit and the Yorkshire Cycling Festival venue gave us a few EOD riders too (as well as a number of lost Audax riders attempting to register with us!)

You can see all of the provisional results and tracks on MapRun here

Most riders finished well within the allocated 3 hours, but a couple will need their scores adjusted for the final results. Do get in touch if you have any controls missing and you’ve not been able to do a ‘HITMO’ adjustment yourself.

For Garmin device users, you may have noticed that there are now 2 options for Garmin results – “punches” (the existing method) and “tracks” (for newer devices) – “Punches” worked fine for me but do try the alternative if you have any problems.

The closed road signs for the start/finish locations were mentioned on the website instructions I realise that we should have mentioned that at registration too! Remote locations aren’t ideal but for an event like this it was the only way to make sure it was safe.

The download for tomorrow’s event is now available!

The mobile 5G signal strength is not great at the Showground. Please make sure to download the MapRun course before you set off.

MapRun download is now ready in the usual location, QR code below
select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Summer 26

Registration 0915 – 1015 | Starts 0930 – 1030 | 3 hour course

Parking and Registration is at the showground and it’s a short ride to the start (see map)

NB: The Cowlam bottom road (the one that the start is on) has road closed signs all over it. This is for road patching but it’s only happening on weekdays and is easy to pass on a bike. Thanks to Jon for his recce of the course.

Limited entry on the day available for ~15 riders – £15/adult rider.

Here’s the blank course map for the Yorkshire Wolds event on Saturday June 13th. All details in the previous post.

Registration and parking is at the Showground Event Centre where you will receive your map. Then it’s a short ride to the start/finish locations.